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I have a new idea, which I think in a way would work well, I have been working as a Java Developer since past few years, I also have a good knowledge on design patterns and data structures which are ...

We have several web projects within our organisation - using different frameworks and with many different developers.
Each developer might use a different ide and use different operating system etc ...

I know there have been same question asked multiple times on the programmers stackexchange. I think my question is more specific and hence decided to start a new question.
My current a project which ...

I have got 2 days for making a very serious decision about the tools and platforms that my company is going to use in order to port its WPF application to Linux / Android / iOS whatnot.
Obviously I ...

These days, it's fairly common for me to be tasked to make a change that actually breaks the prior spec. I know that one of the major ideas behind TDD is to have a suite that verifies all your changes ...

I am taking the front-end role in a project. Should I be specifying for my back-end teammates the exact format of JSON that their PHP returns to my JavaScript?
For example, should I be telling them ...

Could someone help me to understand how do developers create software that run on windows, linux, and Mac OS X? I am just starting out and have come to the conclusion that I am at a loss for terms to ...

I recently started my first programming job after working for a couple of years developing websites. This new company focuses on PHP and has had only one developer responsible for the code since the ...

We're reworking our process with subversion at the moment, and one of the things we're doing is making branches for each release target in our demo environment so that you can test a release that has ...

We want to setup proper development workflow.
We have two main branches: master(release branch) and develop(working branch).
We want to use pull requests properly.
We see two ways how to do this:
The ...

I'm a developer in the IT department of a large oil company. I received a spec document, basically in plain English, about business rules that need to be implemented in a new application. The rules ...

Anyone have numbers on how big a "traditional" software teams are across the industry? At what point do big companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, etc. split teams of developers up? Agile books ...

How can one move development / test code into production, and not end up breaking the functionality in Production environment? I am working with a small sized company, so they don't have a budget for ...

I'm willing, with some friends, to make a developers guide for an open source point of sale written in Java.
The thing is I have never written anyone and so I don't know exactly what to put in there ...

I have a web app product (PHP, MySQL) for which I offer a bespoking service. That is, you can buy the main product, which is quite extensive, and then have it customised however you like. This might ...

We are a team of 3 developers (2 experienced devs and a junior).
We just started a brand new project. We've designed the application, concentrated efforts on choosing the right architecture and now ...

I have a project for a PIC16F1454 that needs some custom linking. Basically, I've separated my code into two parts that can be downloaded separately in the field and thus update (almost) all of the ...

I am working on a scraping project which involves getting web data and parsing them for further use. I have been working using PHP and CURL to make scraping scripts which crawls web data and I make ...

I am doing a small software project on my local PC. I'm the only person working on this. I'd like to back this up to the cloud every day so that if anything happens to my HDD I have a various copies ...

When upgrading Visual Studio to a newer version, a new directory is created e.g. "Visual Studio 2013". I understand that that makes sense as we want to differentiate between code targeting different ...

There are some good examples of well-documented code out there, such as java api. But, a lot of code in public projects such as git and internal projects of companies is poorly documented and not very ...

I'm new to web development and I've started working on a project in my company that uses DJANGO. I feel it flexible to start my development straight first from the templates. I think it will be easier ...

Talking generally abount mobile application development, I am looking for a list of appropriate questions to ask when visiting the client to get the initial requirements, i.e. what they suppose the ...

I am trying to develop a computing application which needs a lot of memory (>500gb). Buying a single machine for that is overly expensive. I can, though, buy ~100 small instances on Digital Ocean or ...

I've been noticing the roles in a development team has been splitted each time more.
I remember some time ago, there was a mix between backend and frontend developers.
But since the restful APIs has ...

I'm in charge of defining an XML schema for some data; the plan is to have various systems (all under our control) upload XML files that match this schema to a central server for processing. I don't ...